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2/24/2016

It’s been a of couple years since Vancouver’s White Lung unleashed
the awesomely thrashing controlled chaos that was their third album, Deep Fantasy. It landed in the top 10 our best albums list
that year, and we haven’t been the only ones fiending for more in the
interim. Well, the wait for new White Lung is over. A new album called Paradise is due out this spring on Domino, and today they’ve shared a video for the surprisingly poppy lead single “Hungry.”
The song comprises exquisite layers of guitar perfectly colliding
over punishing drums and plenty of crashing cymbals — a sign of the
quick, furious 28 minutes the album contains. As for the video, it stars
Amber Tamblyn as a vain, ornery socialite who can’t seem to look good
enough for herself despite all of the batshit desperate measures she
takes to improve her look. Justin Gradin directed the clip and co-wrote
it with White Lung’s Mish Barber-Way. Also look out for a cameo from
Deafheaven’s George Clarke.
In the video, Tamblyn’s character combs her eyelashes with egg yokes, douses her face with Paradise
brand condensed milk (which has her face on the package), and is
transfixed by her reflection at every opportunity. She never quite sees
what she hopes, though, because her mirrored self is Barber-Way
screaming the lyrics at her harshly. The particularly resonant first
half of the refrain “Baby you’re weak/ Baby your starvin” seems to
follow her wherever she goes. Unable to escape her mild fame as the girl
on the condensed milk can, she eventually falls into a pool trying to
rid herself of the haunting image she sees looking back at her. Killer
song. Killer video. Hell yes. Welcome back, White Lung!